Two more people have died from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s latest outbreak in North Kivu province, the country’s Health Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

That brings the total number of deaths in the latest outbreak to 36, according to the Health Ministry.

On Tuesday, the World Health Organization confirmed that the latest cases in Congo’s North Kivu province are part of the Zaire strain of the virus and that there is no link to a separate outbreak, which occurred in the western Equateur province that has since been declared over.

“It’s good news and it’s very bad news,” WHO Deputy Director-General for Emergency Preparedness and Response Peter Salama told journalists in Geneva, after the new cases were first confirmed.

“The bad news is that this strain of Ebola carries with it the highest case-fatality-rate of any of the strains of Ebola, anywhere above 50% and higher, according to previous outbreaks,” he said. “So, it’s the most-deadly variant of the Ebola virus strains that we have, that’s the bad news. The good news is that we do have — although it’s still an investigational product — a safe and effective vaccine, that we were able to deploy last time around.”

According to WHO, this outbreak, which is in an active conflict zone, will be more complicated to contain than any that came before.

Specialists trust that an exploratory antibody, known as rVSV-ZEBOV, had any kind of effect in containing the prior late flare-up.

Inoculations for the present flare-up in North Kivu started Wednesday, a representative for WHO affirmed, expressing that “around 40 wellbeing specialists are relied upon to be immunized today; by end of the week, once all the essential advances are set up, immunization of network contacts and their contacts will initiate.”

A sum of 43 instances of hemorrhagic fever have been accounted for in North Kivu territory, of which 16 are affirmed and 27 are plausible, said the service. Experts are exploring an extra 46 speculated cases, as indicated by the service.

The two new passings were accounted for in the towns of Beni and Mabalako, in the northern piece of the region, as indicated by the service. Ebola cases have additionally been accounted for in the towns of Butembo, Oicha, Musienene and Mandima, said the service.

North Kivu area is among Congo’s most populated regions, with eight million occupants, as per WHO and UN. Its capital is the city of Goma. The locale has been encountering extraordinary uncertainty and an intensifying compassionate emergency, with more than one million inside uprooted individuals and a ceaseless surge of displaced people to neighboring nations, including Uganda, Burundi and Tanzania.

WHO is working with accomplices in the neighborhood networks to give data to occupants on the best way to shield themselves from the savage infection and answer their inquiries – steps that are pivotal to control an outbreak, said WHO.

Congo’s Health Ministry declared on August 1 that a bunch of new Ebola cases have been accounted for, days after it proclaimed that a flare-up in Equateur territory that guaranteed 33 lives had finished. That outbreak was the ninth recorded flare-up that Congo has seen since the infection was first found in 1976.